Tag: Barack Obama

In a report for PBS, KET’s Renee Shaw looks at the influence of health-care reform on the U.S. Senate race

Kentucky is a state “where both the economy and health care poll as high issues and where the state’s exchange under the health care law … has a very different...

By Al Cross October 24, 2014 YOUR HEALTH
Obamacare seems to be no plus for Kentucky Democrats, perhaps mainly because of the word’s first three syllables

Though the federal health-reform law has helped cover more than half a million Kentuckians and cut the state’s uninsured population by half, “there is little evidence it will help” Kentucky...

By Al Cross September 20, 2014 YOUR HEALTH
Hospitals say too many of the newly insured are using emergency rooms for primary care; state says it’s working on the problem

By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News More people with health insurance, a shortage of primary-care physicians and a steep learning curve for the newly insured all add up to more...

By Melissa Patrick August 1, 2014 YOUR HEALTH
Young people are more likely to be diagnosed with advanced cancer if they are uninsured, national study finds

By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Adolescents and young adults who don’t have insurance are more likely to be diagnosed with advanced cancer than their peers who have health insurance,...

By Melissa Patrick March 3, 2014 YOUR HEALTH
Invisible health panel could help Ky., if it had money and met

A panel charged with helping devise solutions to the nation’s health-care workforce crisis, which includes ensuring rural areas have enough health-care providers, is having a workforce crisis of its own:...

By molly_burchett February 4, 2013 YOUR HEALTH
134,000 Kentucky families will split $15.3 million in health insurance rebates

About 134,000 families in Kentucky will get money back from their health insurance companies this summer. The families, representing about 249,000 people, will get a total of $15.3 million in...

By tara_kaprowy June 22, 2012 YOUR HEALTH
Obama changes health-insurance rule to placate religious groups that oppose birth control

In an effort to quell a firestorm of controversy, President Obama announced today that his administration change its new rule that requires employers to offer free birth-control coverage in their...

By tara_kaprowy February 10, 2012 YOUR HEALTH

Tag: Barack Obama

In a report for PBS, KET’s Renee Shaw looks at the influence of health-care reform on the U.S. Senate race

Obamacare seems to be no plus for Kentucky Democrats, perhaps mainly because of the word’s first three syllables

Hospitals say too many of the newly insured are using emergency rooms for primary care; state says it’s working on the problem

Young people are more likely to be diagnosed with advanced cancer if they are uninsured, national study finds

Invisible health panel could help Ky., if it had money and met

134,000 Kentucky families will split $15.3 million in health insurance rebates

Obama changes health-insurance rule to placate religious groups that oppose birth control